"Alright, I know. I'm on my way. You can go ahead with your business." After hanging up the phone, Wen Xiangyang hailed a taxi and headed towards Sid Restaurant.
Sid Restaurant.
When Wen Xiangyang arrived at the restaurant, it was just past one forty.
The meeting was set for two o'clock in the afternoon. She wasn't technically late, but she sat in the restaurant until three o'clock and the man she was meeting had still not shown up.
If it were not for the fact that Yan Xin had gone through so much trouble to find this man for her, and this was the last viable option, Wen Xiangyang would have given up and left.
"Miss, would you like to order something?" After Wen Xiangyang had sat alone for over an hour, a waiter approached and asked.
Wen Xiangyang had no option but to order, "I'll have a fillet steak."
"Alright, please wait a moment."
Wen Xiangyang sat waiting for another hour. She finished her steak, and the man she was supposed to meet still hadn't arrived.
Just as Wen Xiangyang ran out of patience and was about to leave, a man, dressed in a pink shirt, overly flamboyant, finally appeared in front of her with his hands tucked into his trouser pockets.
"So you're Ada's friend, the one who got dumped? I heard you're looking for a stand-in boyfriend to attend your ex-boyfriend's wedding? You're pretty average-looking, to be honest. But seeing as you're a friend of Ada's, I'll make do."
Wen Xiangyang was genuinely angry. She had waited for this man for over two hours, and the minute he opened his mouth, it was to mock and scorn her – he was worse than all the others she had met in recent days!
Wen Xiangyang might not be astoundingly beautiful, but she had delicate features and was in the category of a regular beauty that grew on you the more you looked at her.
Hearing the man's words, she was more amused than angry. Just when she was about to retort, her hand was grabbed and she stumbled into a broad chest.
Wen Xiangyang looked up, surprised to see Mu Lingqian again.
Seeing him twice in one day, nothing could be more coincidental than that.
If this was yesterday, Wen Xiangyang would have definitely pushed the man away. But considering he had defended her earlier in the day and even offered to help, she wasn't as repelled or annoyed by him as she used to be.
"You want to take a bite of my woman? Reluctantly, after a mouth rinse?" Mu Lingqian's voice, chilled to the bone but with a touch of humor, echoed in the restaurant.
The flamboyant man was startled and stood up the moment he saw Mu Lingqian.
Mu Lingqian. He had caught sight of him from afar just once.
That man was a legend in the business world and an inviolable entity in Nande City. Even the old man in his family was extremely deferential when dealing with Mu Lingqian.
Only then did the flamboyant man notice that the whole restaurant had been cleared out at some point, leaving just the three of them inside.
"I, I..."
Not only was the flamboyant man taken aback, even Wen Xiangyang was a little awestruck by the powerful aura that surrounded Mu Lingqian. She found the flamboyant man's bizarre reaction strange. Was it because the man beside her was too intimidating?
But she had to admit, Mu Lingqian's aura was wasted just being a top-grosser at Mousse.
"Aren't you leaving?" Mu Lingqian spoke again.
Upon hearing this, the flamboyant man scurried out, stumbling all the way.
Seeing the flamboyant man's reaction, Wen Xiangyang raised her head to look at Mu Lingqian, "You..."
But Mu Lingqian simply gave her a casual glance.
"How can someone without skills be the famous serving boy?"
The problem was that when he said things like that, he managed to sound so aloof and noble.
He made such a good point that, Wen Xiangyang had no rebuttal to offer.